The organization is aimed at getting kids interested in flying and improving the quality of life for children with cancer and other life-altering diseases. Wright is also planning a literal trip around the world -- a campaign that's raising money to coordinate 40 events around the country to take children with cancer and other illnesses on "discovery flights." The crash was a setback, but he still plans to make that flight.

Saturday afternoon, the organization held an event in Baytown that gave kids a lesson in flying. The youngsters even got take ride in the friendly skies.

For some of the kids, this was their first time in a small plane.

"I wanted to be able to experience what is like to be on an airplane," student Abby Harrison said.

"The ground is boring," another student, Jared Paterson, told us. "I like the air."

Around the World for Life also received a $25,000 donation Saturday from Lifeproof, the company behind the iPad case that protected his device from the waters of the Gulf of Mexico when his plane crashed.